Aquamark 2.3 Benchmarks

AquaMark
is another DirectX 8 benchmark. Using vertex shaders, any card that is DirectX8
compatible will not just have a huge speed boost, the image will also look
better. Default test has 24 MB worth of textures.

AquaMark 1024x768

Video
Card

FPS

Ranking

1.

Radeon
8500

50

2.

MSI GF4
Ti4600

67.1

3.

Gainward GF4
Ti4600

66.6

4.

Gainward GF4
Ti4600 oc'ed

71.9

Again as
with 3DMark, the GeForce 4 Ti4600's leave the Radeon 8500 way behind.
Overclocking the Ti4600 nets a healthy performance gain. Let's see how things
turn out at higher resolutions.

AquaMark 1280x1024

Video
Card

FPS

Ranking

1.

Radeon
8500

39.7

2.

MSI GF4
Ti4600

44.9

3.

Gainward GF4
Ti4600

44.6

4.

Gainward GF4
Ti4600 oc'ed

49.8

AquaMark 1600x1200

Video
Card

FPS

Ranking

1.

Radeon
8500

28.6

2.

MSI GF4
Ti4600

32.9

3.

Gainward GF4
Ti4600

33.2

4.

Gainward GF4
Ti4600 oc'ed

36.6

The same
trend appears here as well, however the higher the resolution, the more the
videocards are maxing out.